Opening on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30pm with a performance and introduction by Luzi Gross (Cultural scientist, Art educator, Curator). The exhibition is on view until May 17, 2024.

The exhibition is a sci-fi experiment with the fungus Ganoderma applanatum as its main agency. In reference to Stuttgart, the artist has brought the exhaust soot of a Daimler E-Class, her hair, and wood from a forest in relation with the finest hyphae of the fungus. In the laboratory, the fungus has woven a new kind of microbiome that emerges as a multispecies from fungi, tree, car and humankind. The artist repeats the experiment in a performance with the participation of visitors at the opening.

Further Composts of Newborns will emerge during the exhibition period under the climatic conditions of the project space.

The exhibition ends on May 17, 2024 at 7 p.m. with a conversation with the artist together with the mycologist J. Philipp Benz (TU Munich).

The Artist talk with Prof. Philipp Benz and Christina Maria Pfeifer, Mai 17, 2024 in the Institut Dr. Flad.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2024